...20/20.  Are you still trying to prove your fair and balanced bonafides?

Jim Pendergast and his 'saloon politics' probably was a part of Truman's life, as at one time, HST was a KC saloon piano player. However, the connections were not widely known until later in Truman's life.

JFK, on the otherhand was a well known skirt chaser from the gitgo, but that was not given much attention in the media until long after his death.

My premise is that most unsavory facts on previous candidates were not given widespread public dissemination until after the individual was out of office. The 'old boy political network was well entrenched back then.

One interesting fact...Truman had no pension as a former POTUS, as none existed until Eisenhower was in office, and Congress approved a POTUS pension. Truman had only his military pension from his service in the US Army as a Captain, about $12,500/year. He was given offers of remuneration for endorsing products and services, which he refused in all.

Snow, I'm in agreement with that. I could personally give a fuck about a candidate's sex life. I just want a leader....kind of hard to come by these days. Seems as if now, the POTUS makes decisions based on the consensus of his political advisors, or what the daily poll results are.

Well, you asked....Obama's social security number, SSAN 042-68-4425, was previously issued to a gentleman that immigrated from France in 1924, Jean Paul Ludwig, and was issued that number in 1957. Mr. Ludwig lived most of his life in Connecticutt, where SSN's begin with 042, but lived the last years of his life in Hawaii. He died in Hawaii, and the Social Security Admin was never informed of his death, and because he never received any benefits, there were no benefits to stop, so no questions were ever raised.

Seems a bit odd that, Obama, never having worked or lived in Connecticutt would be issued an SSN from that state. I was not aware that SSN's could be legally reissued to subsequent individuals, especially if the death of the original recipient was never reported to the SSA. So, how did Obama come by that SSN? Who knows?

no voting record other than "present" no college records (sealed) no on from his college even remembers him. The media other tyhan Fox wouldn't even try and then label anyone who had anything on Obama a racist.

4 more years of him... we are all f--ked./